What do professors want to learn to improve their teaching

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dc.contributor.authorMather, Jennifer A.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-30T21:16:49Z
dc.date.available2019-08-30T21:16:49Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.descriptionOpen access article. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) appliesen_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper recounts the author’s experience with giving a Needs Assessment for improvement by university teachers. Subjects were from the University of Lethbridge and the 2008 Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) conference session. Teachers at the University (n=77) indicated they could spend 5-15 hours in teaching development per semester and wanted a variety of information access but favoured quick one-hour workshops. STLHE participants (n=34) were willing to attend three-hour workshops and spend more time per semester (over 20 hours) improving their teaching. Topics that both groups wanted to hear about were teaching efficiently, using student feedback, fostering critical thinking, and marking fairly. STLHE participants were more interested in fostering group work, student writing, and dealing with student disabilities and diversity, whereas the University sample cared more about preventing cheating and presenting the results of their teaching for promotion and tenure. All in all, there were many things that teachers wanted to learn.en_US
dc.description.peer-reviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationMather, J. A. (2009). What do professors want to learn to improve their teaching? Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2, 8-14. https://doi.org/10.22329/celt.v2i0.3196.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5542
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Windsoren_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen_US
dc.publisher.urlhttps://dx.doi.org/10.22329/celt.v2i0.3196
dc.subjectUniversity teachersen_US
dc.subjectTeaching developmenten_US
dc.subjectNeeds assessment
dc.subject.lcshCollege teachers--Training of
dc.titleWhat do professors want to learn to improve their teachingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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